Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners

High Risk
71%

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AUTOMATION RISK
CALCULATED
78%
(High Risk)
POLLING
64%
(High Risk, Based on 193 votes)
Average: 71%
LABOR DEMAND
GROWTH
0.8%
by year 2033
WAGES
$33,450
or $16.08 per hour
Volume
836,230
as of 2023
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JOB SCORE
2.5/10
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We rate jobs using four factors. These are:

- Chance of being automated
- Job growth
- Wages
- Volume of available positions

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Calculated automation risk

78% (High Risk)

High Risk (61-80%): Jobs in this category face a significant threat from automation, as many of their tasks can be easily automated using current or near-future technologies.

More information on what this score is, and how it is calculated is available here.

Some quite important qualities of the job are difficult to automate:

  • Assisting and Caring for Others

User poll

64% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted that it's probable this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 78% chance of automation.

What do you think the risk of automation is?

What is the likelihood that Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?

Sentiment

The following graph is shown where there are enough votes to produce meaningful data. It displays user poll results over time, providing a clear indication of sentiment trends.

Sentiment over time (yearly)

Growth

Slow growth relative to other professions.

The number of 'Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners' job openings is expected to rise 0.8% by 2033

Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2023 and 2033
Updated projections are due 09-2025.

Wages

Very low paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners' was $33,450, or $16 per hour

'Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners' were paid 30.4% lower than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Volume

Significantly greater range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2023 there were 836,230 people employed as 'Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners' within the United States.

This represents around 0.6% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 181 people are employed as 'Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners'.

Job description

Perform any combination of light cleaning duties to maintain private households or commercial establishments, such as hotels and hospitals, in a clean and orderly manner. Duties may include making beds, replenishing linens, cleaning rooms and halls, and vacuuming.

SOC Code: 37-2012.00

Comments (20)

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Tonya (Low)
23 Jul 2025 05:56
House Cleaning is a very detailed job that requires a delicate touch and a mental assessment of what needs to be done each time.
Victoria (Low)
14 Feb 2025 10:08
Physically changing beds and cleaning bathrooms cannot be done by AI. Hoovering and floor cleaning maybe but changing bedding?
Yoki
02 Sep 2024 15:59
As a hotel housekeeper, I doubt I will ever be replaced, let alone in the next 20 years. You're telling me that anything below the highest of end hotels are gonna be able to even afford housekeeping robots? They can barely keep us paid! And even one of these hypothetical cleaning devices is gonna cost more than our entire team's yearly salary. And what if they start breaking down? Can't call someone in last-minute to cover a shift when your entire workforce is down because management didn't remember to plug "the team" in the night before!
How would that even work? Any cleaning maintenance robots are like these noisy checker discs that scuttle around on the floor and most of the cleaning is at human hand-level. Making beds correctly and to standard isn't that easy and takes a certain amount of dexterity and fast jerks to accomplish. How is a robot gonna do that, exactly? We don't even have prosthetics that mimic a human hand with the same speed and strength but you're telling me they will have a whole ass robot ready by 2044? Look up "robot soccer" to see how far humanized automaton technology is these days. It's not that impressive.
And keep in mind how FAST we need to go. Robots aren't fast. Even the most expensive roomba-like vacuum bot out there takes at least 20 minutes to vacuum a medium sized room while that's the time limit for the ENTIRE room! No way these bots can be as productive as a human with a mop, dust rag, and the will to make it happen.
Susan (Uncertain)
29 Nov 2023 21:14
I am uncertain because I have been waiting for such a "house cleaning robot" since around 1975 when a humorous song came out that included "my new invention will do your chores
Take out your garbage and wax your floors
Just plug it in the wall it's completely automatic
Hang it in the hall or you could hide it in the attic" (Five Man Electrical Band). I already have vaccuum robot but it does not work as well as the one I have to push and it is a far cry from doing tasks like making beds, doing laundry, dusting entire home, cleaning cupboards, and so on. I just don't see it happening soon.
Declan (Low)
21 Jul 2023 08:09
AI already does a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to house work. But there are things such as folding clothes, cleaning in higher places, eg polishing doors, handles, mopping floors, and regardless of how small a place is, some people are just lazy, too lazy to do even the smallest things.

Also, people, myself included, would like someone to be in contact with, just feels more then a little robotic mechanism walking around my house
Andrew F Block (Low)
16 May 2023 14:18
I run an in-home senior care agency. The caregivers have to interact with the clients personally, as well as clean bathrooms, sinks, mirrors, take laundry up and down steps, run errands and grocery shopping sweep and mop floors and take out garbage. Unless you had a full bodied physical standing robot with hands and arms that could do all of that, and maneuver, all the aspects of the house steps included. It would be difficult for a robot to do that. Far beyond a Roomba vacuum on the floor, these tasks require much more intricacy.
Gen (Moderate)
08 Apr 2023 10:00
Trusted human housekeepers are hard to find. Since technology is rapidly accelerating people will turn even more to A.I.
Not a robot
09 Dec 2022 20:35
The requirements needed for an autonomous robot would be 1) smell 2) physical flexibility/durability 3) reasoning 4) electronic communications 5) patience 6) able to scrub hard surfaces with different contours 7) able to half finish a job in one room and return to complete when unoccupied 8) to understand that the daily task and order of things may change 9) able to operate other electronic devices ie.. ovens for proper cleaning 10) able to lift any type of material such as cast iron stove covers, toilet lids, garbage cans, rugs 11) a battery that lasts between 3-6 hours depending on size of home 12) a charging port small enough to be placed in an inconspicuous area out of eye sight.
Elf
09 Sep 2021 23:55
House cleaning can be a complex and challenging task that demands careful attention to detail. From deactivating alarms and opening locks with a deft touch to lifting dog gates and ensuring that cats don't escape, there are numerous variables to consider. It's also important to use the appropriate cleaning agents, such as the "right" soap for washing dishes. In addition to these practical considerations, there's also the aesthetic aspect to consider, such as carefully dusting delicate items like plastic vines or checking the condition of a fragile vase that may already be cracked. To successfully clean a home, it requires precise movements and a keen eye for detail.
Kelli Grabener (Highly likely)
14 Aug 2021 21:16
The Pandemic is causing housekeepers not to want to come back to work. Its time to get creative
Maggie B.
03 May 2021 17:42
I'm honestly fine with that as long as the robots wear cute cat maid outfits. Otherwise, I'd prefer to be the one in that outfit cleaning up your house.
Angela
30 Jun 2020 12:02
I hate all this robot stuff. They using us to work and making money off us and the money they make they invest in robots to replace us. I hate it. I hate driverless cars
Kary (Highly likely)
28 Jan 2020 18:51
example 1: roomba
rob (No chance)
23 Jun 2019 06:29
hotel housekeeping is very detailed, you would need a very advanced robot with minute hand movements.
bryce
30 Dec 2019 06:57
Completely agree with rob. Although robots are currently applied to the vacuum cleaner, these are extremely expensive, take forever to clean the entire home, and they are noisy. I admit there is a likelihood that the time will ultimately arrive, but it will be a while away
humpty dumpty
12 Jun 2020 05:11
you are probably a cleaner yourself :)
Person
13 Jan 2020 12:07
It's AI it can learn that's the whole point
blue fin
12 Jun 2020 05:11
but robots can do that you numpty
someone
27 Oct 2020 22:05
blue fin and Person, I just don't think robots could do that. You see, there are a lot of variables. For example, there could be a dirty towel and the robot didn't know. So, I just don't think that robots could really do that.
TT
23 Mar 2023 06:05
The programmer or someone that check the robots will have to fill new colour code towel or clean one, in their robotic, box tools, or either inside their arm, no need to carry thing around then the robot knows to continue to clean, may be I watch too many Si-fi movies.

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